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We present a convex geometry perspective to the Effective Field Theory (EFT) parameter space. We show that the second $s$ derivatives of the forward EFT amplitudes form a convex cone, whose extremal rays are closely connected with states in…

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We discuss an effective field theory (EFT) approach to the computation of fluctuation-induced interactions between particles bound to a thermally fluctuating fluid surface controlled by surface tension. By describing particles as points,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Cem Yolcu , Ira Z. Rothstein , Markus Deserno

We apply the effective field theoretic (EFT) approach to resum the large perturbative logarithms arising when partonic hard scattering cross-sections are taken to the threshold limit. We consider deep inelastic scattering, Drell-Yan lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ahmad Idilbi , Xiangdong Ji , Feng Yuan

We study the fundamentals of quantum field theory on a rigid de Sitter space. We show that the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all orders can be equivalently generated by a non-unitary Lagrangian on a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Victor Gorbenko , Shota Komatsu

Relative entropy is a non-negative quantity and offers a powerful means of achieving a unified understanding of fundamental properties in physics, including the second law of thermodynamics and positivity bounds on effective field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Daiki Ueda , Kazuhiro Tatsumi

We consider a massive scalar field with quartic self-interaction $\lambda/4!\,\phi^4$ in de~Sitter spacetime and present a diagrammatic expansion that describes the field as driven by stochastic noise. This is compared with the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-25 Bjorn Garbrecht , Florian Gautier , Gerasimos Rigopoulos , Yi Zhu

Experiments in particle physics have hitherto failed to produce any significant evidence for the many explicit models of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) that had been proposed over the past decades. As a result, physicists have…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Philip Bechtle , Cristin Chall , Martin King , Michael Kraemer , Peter Maettig , Michael Stoeltzner

The method of effective field theories (EFTs) is developed for the scattering of two particles at wavelengths which are large compared to the range of their interaction. It is shown that the renormalized EFT is equivalent to the effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 U. van Kolck

The nuclear physics landscape has been redesigned as a sequence of effective field theories (EFTs) connected to the Standard Model through symmetries and lattice simulations of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). EFTs in this sequence are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 H. -W. Hammer , S. König , U. van Kolck

We present a study of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) generalization of stochastic inflation in a model-independent single-field framework and its impact on primordial black hole (PBH) formation. We show how the Langevin equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-24 Sayantan Choudhury , Ahaskar Karde , Pankaj Padiyar , M. Sami

Hamiltonian Truncation Effective Theory is a framework that aims to improve the results of Hamiltonian truncation in a systematic, order-by-order fashion using Effective Field Theory methodology. The result is a truncated effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-30 Ekrem Demiray , Kara Farnsworth , Rachel Houtz

We consider the most general effective field theory (EFT) Lagrangian with scalar fields and derivatives, and renormalise it to substantially higher loop order than existing results in the literature. EFT Lagrangians have phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-12 Johan Henriksson , Franz Herzog , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

The effective field theory of inflation is a powerful tool for obtaining model independent predictions common to large classes of inflationary models. It requires only information about the symmetries broken during the inflationary era, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-11 Nicola Bartolo , Dario Cannone , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

In this dissertation, I introduce the principles and methods of effective field theory and describe my work in three EFTs: First, in the perturbative QCD region, I use soft collinear effective theory (SCET) to prove that strong interaction…

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We continue the rigorous study of classical effective field theories (EFTs) that was recently initiated in the work of Reall and Warnick [RW22]. We study a system with one light and one heavy field with cubic coupling and prove global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Istvan Kadar

In recent years, a change in attitude in particle physics has led to our understanding current quantum field theories as effective field theories (EFTs). The present paper is concerned with the significance of this EFT approach, especially…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Castellani

We investigate the relativistic effective field theory (EFT) describing a non-dissipative gravitating continuum. In addition to ordinary continua, namely solids and fluids, we find an extraordinary more symmetric continuum, aether. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Katsuki Aoki , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Shinji Mukohyama , Kazufumi Takahashi

With no direct evidence for new physics at the TeV scale, deviations from the Standard Model (SM) can be explored systematically through Effective Field Theories (EFTs) such as the Standard Model EFT (SMEFT). SMEFT extends the SM by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-04 Dongwon Kim

We introduce an effective field theory (EFT) for conformal impurity by considering a pair of transversely displaced impurities and integrating out modes with mass inversely proportional to the separation distance. This EFT captures the…

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